Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] than [adj] per [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the turn of the century , some two million men and women , rather less than 5 per cent of the working population , were employed in mines and factories . |
| 2 | Prior to Puhlhofer , failure to obtain leave to proceed by judicial review occurred in less than 10 per cent of the applications . |
| 3 | In the 1960s , out of a higher total level of gold production ( which peaked in 1965 ) much less than 10 per cent reached the reserves , constituting an increase of a mere 3 per cent . |
| 4 | Erm I would n't there are ten per cent , well perhaps less than ten per cent who are absolute loonies . |
| 5 | All successful companies spend much more than 0.5 per cent . |
| 6 | It may not be much more than forty per cent of the voters , leaving the non-voters and the remaining sixty per cent of those who took part in the election to be governed by an administration which is not of their choosing . |
| 7 | The figures show a similar fall in the share of social product taken by government between 1979 and 1982 , of somewhat more than 6 per cent , followed by a substantial recovery in 1987 . |
| 8 | So , for example , £3000 interest for an investment of £97 000 is somewhat more than 3 per cent : it is 3/97 × 100 = 3.09 per cent . ) |
| 9 | Soon , however , you learn to caress the throttle and avoid pouring in more than 100 per cent torque . |
| 10 | The shares concerned must consist of or include shares carrying 75 per cent or more of the voting rights attributable to share capital which are exercisable in all circumstances at any general meeting of the company or , when added to the shares already held by the offeror , carry not less than 75 per cent . |
| 11 | No trading licence may be issued to any company which has directly or indirectly interest in an already-existing security trading company exceeding 10 per cent ( provided the direct participation is not less than 5 per cent ) . |
| 12 | Cable & Wireless finance director , Mr Rod Olsen , said the size of the stake being discussed was ‘ not less than 10 per cent and not more than 20 per cent ’ which would cost CITIC between £375million and £750 million . |
| 13 | The board also announced that , in the absence of unforeseen circumstances , it would recommend a final dividend of not less than 4p , making a total of 7p , representing an increase of not less than 16.7 per cent . |
| 14 | The privatisation programme , it was proposed , would take place in three stages , with not less than 20 per cent of the republic 's assets in private hands by the end of 1992 . |
| 15 | The agreement which the union negotiated is that commercial radio stations must spend not less than 3 per cent of their net advertising revenue on the employment of musicians . |
| 16 | Conversely , the statutes may provide that a government agency or a financial institution holding not less than 30 per cent of the registered capital may exercise voting rights of 51 per cent of the shareholders . |
| 17 | ( 5 ) If the partial offer could result in not less than 30 per cent but not more than 50 per cent of the voting rights being obtained , the offer must state the precise number of shares offered for and may not be declared unconditional as to acceptances unless acceptances are received for not less than that number ( Rule 36.4 ) . |
| 18 | The proportion of the national area of thirteen tropical American countries described as steep sloped is very high — 80 per cent for Honduras , Panama , Haiti and the Dominican Republic and not less than 50 per cent for eleven of the thirteen . |
| 19 | In fact the purchasing power of a single person 's pension in Britain was just less than 75 per cent of the French pension , 60 per cent of its West German counterpart and only 50 per cent of the value of the equivalent Dutch pension . |
| 20 | However , in Britain the same label means the drink contains not more than 1.2 per cent alcohol . |
| 21 | This had been forthcoming , but the Executive Council of the Shipping Federation had been unable to entertain the proposal from an organisation to which , it claimed , not more than one per cent of seamen belonged . |
| 22 | Even in industrial Babergh hundred , Suffolk , stripping the surface layer from the record exposes the original economy of the wood-pasture country — specialised dairying , pig fattening and horse breeding , in almost half its villages , which preserved this traditional system , the top people accounted for not more than 14 per cent of the wealth , a solitary £100 man for just 4½ per cent . |
| 23 | ( 5 ) If the partial offer could result in not less than 30 per cent but not more than 50 per cent of the voting rights being obtained , the offer must state the precise number of shares offered for and may not be declared unconditional as to acceptances unless acceptances are received for not less than that number ( Rule 36.4 ) . |
| 24 | Families whose incomes are not more than 40 per cent above the sb level are often considered to be ‘ living on the margins of poverty ’ ; in 1985 , seven in ten of all one parent families had incomes below this level compared with two out of ten two parent families . |
| 25 | Cable & Wireless finance director , Mr Rod Olsen , said the size of the stake being discussed was ‘ not less than 10 per cent and not more than 20 per cent ’ which would cost CITIC between £375million and £750 million . |
| 26 | Even at independence in 1961 , probably not more than ten per cent of the country 's African population could read and write . |
| 27 | According to Burgess , at the time of the designation of the polytechnics the proportion of sub-degree level work to degree work was of the order of 70 per cent ; by 1974 , this had fallen to about 50 per cent and today it is not more than 30 per cent . |
| 28 | Meanwhile more than 40 per cent of respondents to an opinion poll said that they would prefer a return to more centralized economic management and only 25 per cent wanted a market-oriented system . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , she makes up fifty per cent of the cast — the only other character is her master , Uberto — and sings rather more than fifty per cent of the music , so the drawback becomes quite a serious one . |
| 30 | In 1984 rather more than forty per cent of the total land area of England and Wales had been defined by local planning authorities as being within an area of special control . |